Slavic languages: German = "mute"?

[rusita preciosa]

I made an interesting observation participating in this forum
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?p=7756626#post7756626

German in all listed languages has the root of nem--.
Polish: niemieckiego
Bulgarian: немски
Slovenian: nemščino
Slovak: nemecky
Serbian: nemački
Russian: немeцкий
Czech: německy

Russian немой [nemoy] means "mute / one who can't speak..."

That's where the Russian word for "German" came from. It first meant "any foreigner who cannot speak Russian", then specifically Greman.

Is this the case for other Slavic languages?

Do you have a word with the root nem-- meaning "mute" or "deaf" etc…?

 

[Majalj]

Is this the case for other Slavic languages?

Do you have a word with the root nem-- meaning "mute" or "deaf" etc…?

Yes. Nijemci - mute ones, as opposed to Slaveni or Sloveni, koji slove - that speak.

 

[trance0]

I made an interesting observation participating in this forum
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?p=7756626#post7756626

German in all listed languages has the root of nem--.
Polish: niemieckiego (changed into nominative)
Bulgarian: немски
Slovenian: nemščino nemški (P.S.: for consistency reason I changed this into adjective)
Slovak: nemecky
Serbian: nemački
Russian: немeцкий
Czech: německy

Russian немой [nemoy] means "mute / one who can't speak..."

That's where the Russian word for "German" came from. It first meant "any foreigner who cannot speak Russian", then specifically Greman.

Is this the case for other Slavic languages?

Do you have a word with the root nem-- meaning "mute" or "deaf" etc…?

As far as I know the meaning of 'nem' is similar in all Slavic languages. In Slovene, for example, this word has the same meaning as in Russian.

 

[Azori]

Slovak:

nemecký jazyk or nemčina = German language
nemý = mute

 

[bibax]

It was already discussed many times in many forums.

The conclusion is always the same:

Nothing is sure, everything is possible. (as there are no written records)

 

[ilocas2]

Polish: niemieckiego (changed into nominative)
Bulgarian: немски
Slovenian: nemščino nemški (P.S.: for consistency reason I changed this into adjective)
Slovak: nemecky nemecký (changed from adverb into adjective)
Serbian: nemački
Russian: немeцкий
Czech: německy německý (changed from adverb into adjective)

I completed for clarity changing of words into masculine adjectives in nominative singular.

 

[Милан]

In fact, in Serbian немица = mute one (female), Немица = German (female)

Everything is possible, even this
Немачка (Germany)=Не+мачка=No+cat=Nocat